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How RUSD Board

conducts business

There was an agenda item on the Ramona Unified School District Board meeting of April 24, 2018, to eliminate five para educator positions at Mountain Valley Academy. After finding out about this on the afternoon of Saturday, April 21, our School Site Council met on Monday, April 23, and resolved to request that the board table the motion to allow our council time to develop options we were confident would meet the board’s budget reductions for our school.

Approximately 20 MVA students, parents and school staff attended the board meeting with all 11 speakers in opposition to the board motion. The School Site Council requested of our board only that they table a vote on the motion for even only a few days. There did not appear to be a need for a hasty rush for approval.

We offered to come back to the board on their timeframe with possible ways to minimize impacts of the budget cuts based on our collective knowledge of how the school functions. We believed that any reasonable person or group would welcome, discuss and consider such an offer.

Inexplicably our RUSD Board, without discussion, immediately called for a vote. The vote by our board was unanimous in support of the motion, and against thoughtful community input into the budget cuts that effect the education of our children.

Three of our incredible students addressed the board and were witness to this dismissive and disrespectful exercise of decision making by our board.

The RUSD needs to re-examine their way of conducting our business.

Terry Maxson and Kim Newcomer

Ramona

Delighted with front page photo

After complaining to my friends about the endless political diatribe in the Sentinel every week, I was delighted to see a photo of City Barber Shop on the front page. This is why I read the Sentinel.

God bless you, Wayne.

Bob Murphy

Ramona

An eye for an eye

Is there any question that California is a one-party state? Is there any question that the Democrat party is the party of big government?

California’s big government state is taxing us into oblivion, with only more taxes to come. In my view paying taxes is no different than working for the state. If I pay 30% of my wages in taxes, fees, I am 30% enslaved to the state. The bigger our government gets, the more enslaved I am to the state. Not to worry, though, the elites in charge in Sacramento are devising more taxes for us to pay.

My parents were Democrats. The last time my mother voted, God rest her soul, she refused to vote Democrat, registered as an independent and voted accordingly. The party had gone too far left. I have got to wonder how many Democrats feel the same way.

Now conservatives are dealing with Indivisible America. A top-down organization with guidance from Washington, D.C. Their marching orders are to mindlessly resist all things Trump and conservative. They use radical ridicule ruthlessly, the latest being a quip by Susan Conrad implying that conservatives were some sort of pitchfork carrying mob — just for wanting to understand radical Islam and what drove radical Islamists to kill so many on 9/11.

Here is the deal, Indivisible. You have a huge log in your eye and I suggest you remove it in order to be able to see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Or do you really want to live in a communist state?